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It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done folly in Israel.

בַּחֵ֔רֶם (בַּ) ba. “with the”בָּאֵ֔שׁ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

בַּבֹּ֔קֶר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

בַשָּׁלָ֡ל (בַ) va. “among the”בָּאָ֛רֶץ (בָּ) ba. “in the”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

בְּאָהֳל֖וֹ (בְּ) be. “in”

Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”בָּאֵ֔שׁ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”בָּאֲבָנִֽים׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

בְיָדְךָ֗ (בְ) ve. “in”

and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֔ה (בָּ) ba. “at the”

and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה (בָּ) ba. “at the”

and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you.

בָּאֵ֔שׁ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

בַּלַּ֥יְלָה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

בַּבֹּ֔קֶר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

בַּלַּ֥יְלָה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

בָּעַ֔י (בָּ) ba. “[was] in <the>”

There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

בָּעַי֙ (בָּ) ba. “in <the>”

Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

בַּכִּיד֤וֹן (בַּ) ba. “with the”בְּיָֽדְךָ֙ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”בְיָדְךָ֖ (בְ) ve. “in”בַּכִּיד֥וֹן (בַּ) ba. “with the”בְּיָד֖וֹ (בְּ) be. “[was] in”

The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

בָּאֵֽשׁ׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

בָהֶ֥ם (בָ) va. “in <the>”

The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

בַּתָּ֔וֶךְ (בַּ) ba. “in the”

It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

בַּשָּׂדֶ֗ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בּ֔וֹ (בּ֔) b “in <the>”

All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

בַּיּ֤וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”

For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

בַּכִּיד֑וֹן (בַּ) ba. “with the”

Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

בְּהַ֖ר (בְּ) be. “on”

as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

בְּסֵ֙פֶר֙ (בְּ) be. “in”

All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

בָּרִאשֹׁנָֽה׃ (בָּ) ba. “at the”